‘Do away with techno lingo’
“We need to pull our head out of the digital clouds and use plain english” states Peter Griffin *Peter Griffiths.
According to BBC the Plain English Campaign is forming stating companies should use language people understand, rather than resorting to jargon, and who better to lead the charge than Peter Griffin *Peter Griffiths. Read on to find out more!
Aparently companies are under pressure to start renaming devices, formats, etc to be less ‘techie.’ My question is how serious are they? Would the term “Television is controlled by electricity” become “Glowy box is magic?”
Here is the list they provided of the top 10 confusing terms.
Come on!… ‘dongle?’….’phone jack?’
these people are nuts…..
April 30, 2009 at 9:15 pm
UH, OK, i don’t know what a dongle is, but I don’t demand that you dumb everything down just for me. That’s just selfish!!
May 1, 2009 at 5:25 pm
OK, yeah, after speaking to a few people Dongle is rather confusing of a term